Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has decided to go hunting for a husband. But first she needs some target practice. So she turns to her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on him before setting her sights on another man. But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion that could send all her plans up in smoke.

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In this lush and seductive novel, exciting new author Tessa Dare takes desire to brazen heights.

Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has decided to go hunting for a husband. But first she needs some target practice. So she turns to her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on him before setting her sights on another man. But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion that could send all her plans up in smoke.

Jeremy has an influential title, a vast fortune, and a painful past full of long-buried secrets. He keeps a safe distance from his own emotions, but to distract Lucy from her reckless scheming, he must give his passions free rein. Their sensual battle of wills is as maddening as it is delicious, but the longer he succeeds in managing the headstrong temptress, the closer Jeremy comes to losing control. When scandal breaks, can he bring himself to abandon Lucy to her ruin? Or will he risk his heart and claim her for his own?

Setting: Regency era EnglandI don't know if I can adequately review this audio book, since the narration and production were so bad. I guess the characters were interesting, and there were actually a couple of humorous moments. There was character growth as well. However, there were several places in the narrative where the story could have been wrapped up, but it just kept going on with almost willful misunderstanding and angst. I guess I'll have to read it in print. If only they had gotten someone like Roslyn Landor to do the reading! It was so distracting it was difficult to truly follow the story line - maybe this book is better than my experience, since I listened to and enjoyed the other Tessa Dare novel available at this site at this time.I likely will NOT give this a repeat listen.

The story was okay, although I don't think I could fairly judge it given that the horrible narration was so distracting. It was slow, and painful, and at several points I really thought I'd just give up on it.

I have listened to over 300 books... this one was the first that I made myself keep listening because of poor reading. She can't even read a full sentence with out some weird pause... don't think she is a native english speaker... or maybe she is just a poor reader.

Anyway I hope Tessa Dare never uses Helen Moore Gillon again, because she pretty much ruined a good story! This is a promising author... her other book One dance with a Duke was great! So don't let this narrator turn you away from her other book.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I think the romance was very entertaining for most parts, but the narrator was so bad that I couldn't finish listening! So will have to do without the ending unless by some chance that it will be recorded with a more skilled narrator. The narrator was very droll, slow, pronounced every word as if she was dictating. Her male male voices were very nasal, and made every male sound the same and as an old snobbish aunt!!

I read the book a few years ago and liked it--Tessa Dare is always good. But I could not get through more than 20 minutes of this narrator's absolute massacre of this title. Sad waste of a credit. She has this odd galloping narration that drags out every 4th word--no kidding. Makes the sentences nonsensical. You have to really concentrate to get beyond the pacing to understand what's being said.

The reader. Poor Tessa Dare wrote a lively, witty and very entertaining romance, which the reader has utterly ruined in her prissy, ponderous, overly slow, oddly articulated reading. It's as if she were reading it for the simple minded or English-as-second-language students.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Both hero and heroine. He's a rake and friend of the heroine's older brother, she's in love with another of her brother's friends and trying to practice her 'wiles' on the rake.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

See above. If this isn't her first job, let it please be her last.

Any additional comments?

Read the book, avoid this audiobook, it will detract from your enjoyment of the author's ready and very sly wit. Such a delightful story deserves an equally deft, and droll performance. This is a do-over for me. I regret I cannot get a refund, I'm that annoyed.

Would you consider the audio edition of Goddess of the Hunt to be better than the print version?

Not a fair question for me as I totally love to be read to regardless... I LOVE AUDIO - I JUST WANT THE REST OF TESSA DARES ON AUDIO.....PLEASE.... her books really hold my interest... laugh, cry, enjoy! Her audios on her website are so funny/cute originally TD creations!

What did you like best about this story?

THE BEGINNING WAS REALLY FUN... ANTICIPATION THROUGH OUT! LOOKING forward to next two books ... AS SOON AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE ON AUDIO!

What aspect of Helen Moore-Gillon’s performance would you have changed?

She was a little drawl/tone ... sorry, but I love an accent in my narrators so at least I enjoyed that part!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Terrible terrible reader. Don't the authors,or someone FOR the authors, listen to these audio books before they are released. I just can't go through 13 hours of this... I'm only on chapter 2 and I am done!!!

I was happy when I found another Tessa Dare novel available to me at Audible. I didn't notice that it was narrated by a different reader than the previous book I had enjoyed so much. That usually isn't a big deal. Just takes some getting used to, but I've always been able to overcome that situation.

But not this time. It wasn't even that the reader has an annoying voice or that it grated on one's nerves. She has a nice soft voice and a wonderful accent. I think if she had just read the darn book, I could have born it, but that was not to be.

Her acting skills are atrocious. I didn't realize you even needed acting skills to be a professional reader. But it's certainly plain when those skills are lacking. Is it possible that there are no standards when it comes to reading audiobooks? I can't even tell you whether the story is any good at all because I just obsessed on THAT VOICE.

I stopped listening an hour in. I've never done that before. I'll wait until the experience has faded from my memory and try to read the Kindle version of the book.

Bottom line? Don't make my mistake. I guarantee if I had listened to the audio sample before I rushed to purchase, I would have certainly not done so.

Shortening the constant miscomunication between the characters,even thier epiphonies were not spoken between them.Also the reader made this an awfull listen, her enunciations felt as if she was working hard to dumb this story down . I do not believe this story needed to be dumbed down anymore than its original intention which seemed as it was written for the truley disfunctional relationship.

What could Tessa Dare have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Perhaps the characters could have learned by thier mistakes and miss-comunications.The angst levels where crazy even for a bodest ripper.This appeared drawn out for the number of pages needed.

What didn’t you like about Helen Moore-Gillon’s performance?

Her speaking voice was strained and her enunciation of the wording was painfull to listen to ,see the first question.

What character would you cut from Goddess of the Hunt?

The aunt.

Any additional comments?

Very dissapointed.This was awfull to listen to.I bought it with the $4.99 sale and it was so bad I would love to get a refund even for the $ 4.99.

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